The pathway

Three steps. Start with the lowest-risk one.

Senior people leadership for the stage between ‘no HR’ and ‘first CHRO’. You do not have to commit to a full engagement to begin. Start with a short, low-risk diagnostic, then decide how far to go.

STEP 01
~2 weeks

Diagnostic

An HR maturity diagnostic across culture, hiring and process. A structured read of exactly where your people function stands, and which gaps will bite first as you scale. Low commitment, clear output. No obligation to go further.

Output: a written read of your gaps, prioritised
STEP 02
3 to 6 months

Build the function

Embedded fractionally as your Head of People. Build the hiring engine, set comp and levelling, put HR systems and process in place, and protect the culture through the scale-up. Defined scope, measurable outcomes.

Output: a working people function, run by your team
STEP 03
Ongoing

Fractional Head of People

Senior people leadership on retainer. Trusted advisor to the founders, ongoing hiring and org design, the people function run for you, without a full-time CHRO hire.

Output: senior people leadership, only as much as you need
Step 01, in detail

What the diagnostic covers.

01 · Culture

How the values that built the first team are showing up today, where they thin under hiring pressure, and what to reinforce before the next wave of hires.

02 · Hiring

Whether you have a repeatable hiring engine: role scoping, seniority and levelling, sourcing across APAC, structured interviews, offers and close, and the tooling underneath.

03 · Process

The HR systems and process beneath it all: ATS and HRIS, comp bands, onboarding, performance, and basic compliance, so people decisions stop living in scattered docs.

The diagnostic runs on the Bridge AI assessment platform. You answer a structured set of questions; the output is a prioritised read of where your people function stands and which gaps will bite first as you scale.

How a fractional engagement runs

Senior firepower, only as much as you need.

Defined scope

Every engagement starts with a clear scope and the outcomes it is measured against. You always know what you are getting and what done looks like.

Embedded, not external

I work inside your team, in your tools and rituals, as your Head of People, not from the outside as an agency or a one-off recruiter.

Built to be handed over

The hiring engine, systems and process are built so your team keeps running them after I step back. The goal is leverage, not dependence.

Next step

Start with a short conversation.

Twenty minutes to understand where your people function stands today. Or start with the diagnostic and bring the results to the call.

Book a discovery call Start with the diagnostic
Diagnostic opens on the Bridge AI platform · coming soon